newsgroup web viewer

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 11/15/11 8:38 PM, bcs wrote:
> On 11/15/2011 06:51 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>> I've complained about the godawful web viewers for the newsgroup
>> before, and wrote a little program to do a better job.
>>
>> But, I got distracted and didn't quite finish it. I didn't like
>> how it looked primarily.
>>
>> Today, I dropped it into the skeleton of d-programming-language.org
>> and now I pretty much like how it looks:
>>
>>
>> http://arsdnet.net/d-web-site/nntp/get-thread?newsgroup=digitalmars.D&messageId=%3Cj9ps5n%2430nq%241%40digitalmars.com%3E&ordering=ByDate
>>
>>
>> My goal is to present the newsgroup in a more web forum like way, so
>> it's more comfortable to more users.
>>
>>
>> Is there a lot of interest in this kind of thing among the community?
>
> Very bluntly, the most noticeable difference (aside from pure style
> issues) is that you have included the think I **HATE** the most about
> Web Forums:
>
> You have completely obscured the structure of the news groups.

No need to worry about that. Only digitalmars.D.announce posts will be 
there, and there's little structure to them. Essentially we want to 
publish just announcements.

Andrei